Chambarand monastery

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Gatehouse of the abbey with a view of the church (2017)

Monastery Chambarand (lat. Abbatia BM de Sanctissimo Corde Jesus . French Abbaye Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur de Chambarand ) was from 1931 to 2019, a Trappist - abbey in Roybon , Drôme , France , Diocese of Grenoble . It was already a male monastery of the Trappists from 1875 to 1903 .

history

The Trappist monastery

It was founded in 1868 by the Sept-Fons monastery and its short-lived daughter Mérignat in Masbaraud-Mérignat , Creuse department . In 1872 the new convent was built, in 1877 the monastery was elevated to an abbey , and in 1878 the church was consecrated. In 1903 the religious order was dissolved according to the law separating church and state . The monks returned to Sept-Fons and from there founded Maristella Monastery (Maris-Stella) in Tremembé in Brazil.

The most important abbot was from 1897 Jean-Baptiste Chautard , from 1899 at the same time Abbot of Sept-Fons. The monk Gabriel Mossier also gained a special reputation . The sale of a Trappist beer contributed to the monks' livelihood .

The Trappist Convent

The resettlement by Trappist women started in 1931 from two monasteries, one from Maubec Monastery , which founded a subsidiary here, and the second from Monastery Mâcon , a foundation of La Coudre Monastery , which was founded in Brazil from 1908 to 1929 ( Tremembé Monastery and Nova Monastery Friburgo ) and since then had survived in Belgium ( Feluy Abbey near Seneffe ) and has now fully moved to Chambarand. The monastery was called like Monastery Mâcon Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur . Initially around 50 nuns sold self-made Trappist cheese to support themselves (until 2003). On December 3, 2013, the French television channel France 3 broadcast a report by Alexandra Alévêque (* 1972) about life in the Chambarand monastery with the title 21 jours au couvent (21 days in the monastery). In 2019 the convent was dissolved and the remaining nuns were distributed to other monasteries.

Superiors and Abbesses

  • Marie Bonheur (1931-1931)
  • Cécile Gambetta (1931-1932)
  • Jean-Baptiste Balmes (1932–1934, first abbess )
  • Cécile Gambetta (1934-1947)
  • Marie de la Croix Fischer (1947–1953)
  • Agnès Arthaud (1953-1981)
  • Marie-Claire Muller (1981-2002)
  • Anne Morin (2002-2005, Superiora ad nutum )
  • Anne-Chantal Duhail (2005–2006 Superiora ad nutum; 2006–2012 Abbess)
  • Marie-Rose Flandre, Superiora ad nutum (since 2012)

literature

  • Bernard Peugniez , Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012 (p. 345).

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Coordinates: 45 ° 13 '7.7 "  N , 5 ° 15' 9.1"  E